DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST MR?

30 SLFP MPs found guilty of violating Party discipline:

Disciplinary Committee given full authority to take action:

MPs making statements on dividing SLFP to be investigated:

The Disciplinary Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) will initiate action against 30 MPs for violating party discipline. The SLFP Central Committee, when it met on Friday, decided to delegate full authority to the Disciplinary Committee of the party to take action against MPs breaching party discipline, irrespective of their positions in the party.

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Seeking PM’s intervention ‘shameful’:

Identity crisis in UPFA

Deputy Speaker Thilanga Sumathipala said it was a shame that a group of members elected to Parliament from the UPFA is seeking Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s intervention, to resolve an internal matter relating to their identity within the UPFA. The Prime Minister told Parliament on Wednesday (February 10) he had to talk to President Maithripala Sirisena.

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Fonseka’s return to Parliament

Speculation rife about the legality of his appointment to the UNP’s National List:

Although certain legal experts had deemed the nomination of Democratic Party (DP) Leader, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, to Parliament from the UNP National List to fill the vacancy created by the demise of Minister of Lands, M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardena, a violation of the Constitution, government legislators last week endorsed the appointment as fully consistent with the Constitution,

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